ATi Radeon X1K Graphics Launched, Benchmarked

MojoDog writes "ATi has officially launched their all new Radeon X1000 family of 3D Graphics cards this morning and a full showcase with benchmarks of the entire line-up can be found at HotHardware. What may or may not be surprising to you, is the fact that the new high-end flagship X1800 is still a 16 pixel pipe GPU but now running at a blistering 625MHz. Is it fast enough to catch NVIDIA's 24 pipe GeForce 7800 GTX?"

At Last

[Winckle]

Now to reach into my bottomless pit of money!

Excellent

[Anonymous Coward]

I will remortgage my house in anticipation

Re:X1000??

[Iriel]

But at least they all have a long way to go to catch up to Motorola ^_^

I can't wait for some XTRM GRFX CRD.....(suddenly disturbed by the likelyhood of such blasphemy)

Re:What really matters

[Austerity Empowers]

Playing the latest ubar FPS under some windows emulator.

Re:X1000??

[Quasar1999]

They don't have to make sense...

Geforce
Geforce 2
Geforce 3
Geforce 4Ti
Geforce 5600
...
OR...
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows Vista

I'm simply trying to point out that nothing makes sense in the computer industry anymore... Hell my Dell Dimension 8100 PC is crappier than my Dell Dimension 4600. Explain that to me.

Re:X1000??

[Mawbid]

Each Dell is crappier than the next?

Re:doesnt look too hot.

[Ford Prefect]

It does look like hot hardware to me - I think this is what the 'blistering' refers to.

Just make sure your PC has adequate cooling and is kept away from flammable items!

Re:X1000??

[thebdj]

Okay the GeForce Scheme makes sense. They just stopped calling them Geforce 1, 2, 3...The first number is obviously your generation number. The second number is the one you want to look at to guess-timate relative performance. This new one is a bit odd by ATI but it makes sense, X1***. The *** is what to worry about. This is Generation X1, or they could've said XI to possibly confuse you a bit less.

As for the GP's comment, what makes you think OS 11 won't have some weird name like OS X1 or the slightly less weird XI? Look at ESPN games, they are sticking to that 2K* number system, though I guess that makes sense. You want a pointless and totally meaningless system, use the Pentium 4 system. I at least liked knowing by looking what the clock speed was, even if it did mean nothing.